My own thoughts. I have followed the mikrotik forums for a while, been looking for the vmxnet stuff for ages. The feedback I gathered, was that they didn't want to do it. Didn't fit into their roadmap. Plus there was some thought it would eat into their other products. But I think everyone is moving to virtualise everything, look at vxlan and all the NSX addons... My best guess is ROS VM is a once of licence for life... CHR is going to be a subscription model, so an ongoing income stream, maybe even come with support (that would be nice). Is the same code base (my understanding), just a different package sort of like Windows home V's Windows Pro v's Windows Enterprise. Personally, I think they should have had the vmware/virtualization stuff earlier. Lets hope they don't price it out of reach.... Currently right now I have a task to build my own router/fw. Ontop of centos 7. Iptables + quagga... We manage so many linux boxes already another FW/rtr build should be that hard ! A -----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Dave Browning Sent: Tuesday, 25 August 2015 9:40 AM To: MikroTik Australia Public List <public@talk.mikrotik.com.au> Subject: Re: [MT-AU Public] vmxnet3 in ROS now Can someone explain what CHR is all about? Why not just build a VM from the x86 ISO? Is there a fundamental difference I’m not understanding? From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Alex Samad - Yieldbroker Sent: Monday, 24 August 2015 6:15 PM To: MikroTik Australia Public List <public@talk.mikrotik.com.au> Subject: Re: [MT-AU Public] vmxnet3 in ROS now Hmmm, yes I have slowly come to that understanding as well :(. Any idea of the costing of the CHR ? A -----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Tim Warnock Sent: Monday, 24 August 2015 5:09 PM To: 'MikroTik Australia Public List' <public@talk.mikrotik.com.au> Subject: Re: [MT-AU Public] vmxnet3 in ROS now Only on their "Cloud Hosted Router" builds... The licencing is different and for now I believe it's rate limited to 1M/1M. Other things like btest didn't work when I tested it. -----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Alex Samad - Yieldbroker Sent: Monday, 24 August 2015 3:51 PM To: public@talk.mikrotik.com.au Subject: [MT-AU Public] vmxnet3 in ROS now Importance: Low Hi Not that new release http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=99531 but the key think I wanted to point out was *) chr - added x86_64 image for use in virtual environments *) chr - added support for VMware SCSI virtual disks *) chr - added support for VMware vmxnet3 network card *) chr - added support for HyperV SCSI disks *) chr - added support for HyperV Ethernet interfaces *) chr - added support for virtio disks Awesome ..... vmxnet3 drivers woo hoo, didn't think they would do this. A _______________________________________________ Public mailing list Public@talk.mikrotik.com.au http://talk.mikrotik.com.au/mailman/listinfo/public_talk.mikrotik.com.au _______________________________________________ Public mailing list Public@talk.mikrotik.com.au http://talk.mikrotik.com.au/mailman/listinfo/public_talk.mikrotik.com.au _______________________________________________ Public mailing list Public@talk.mikrotik.com.au http://talk.mikrotik.com.au/mailman/listinfo/public_talk.mikrotik.com.au _______________________________________________ Public mailing list Public@talk.mikrotik.com.au http://talk.mikrotik.com.au/mailman/listinfo/public_talk.mikrotik.com.au